Culture Ujiyama Teppei Exhibition 2020 Kim Bergström This year marks the 110th anniversary since the birth of the painter Ujiyama Teppei (1910 - 1986), who was from Hita City in ...
Activities Kanoya Rose Garden Spring Festival Kim Bergström To celebrate the arrival of spring, the Kanoya Rose Garden in Kagoshima Prefecture is hosting a festival where approximately ...
Culture MANGA⇔TOKYO Exhibition 2020-2021 Kim Bergström MANGA⇔TOKYO is a special event taking place at the Oita Prefectural Art Museum, which looks at Japanese manga, anime, games, ...
Activities Cycling in Mifune Bonson Lam With wildflowers swaying in the breeze, green frogs in the grass and pleasant level roads, the countryside between Mifune and...
Culture Kitakinokura Yotsumiya Shrine Bonson Lam The shrine is located in Mifune, a land of rice fields, wheat and other crops, framed by high mountains and the odd grain sil...
The Garden of Bonjour Provence Tristan Scholze The garden of Bonjour Provence, a French restaurant in a home in the Kumamoto countryside. Located on the scenic inside edge ...
Activities Fall Foliage in Gokanosho Mandy Bartok Gokanosho may well be one of Kyushu's best-kept secrets. This mountainous area - once a hideaway for the hunted Heike clan af...
Activities The Miyazaki Shrine Forest - Part 3 Alex Scalzitti The Gokoku Shrine or “the Shrine for the Protection of the Nation” is a shrine dedicated to Japanese soldiers killed in combat.
Accommodation Yatsushiro Grand Hotel Eitetsu Terakado Hotel near Yatsushiro Station with a great mountain view. Convenient location for tourists visiting the area.
Food Co-Renkon Izakaya Minami Kumamoto [Closed] Bonson Lam Co Renkon is part of the Renkon group of izakayas or Japanese taverns in Kumamoto, the others being Renkon and Tenpo-Ryuan. I...
Hydrangea Festival at Mikaeri Falls Tristan Scholze Video of Mikaeri Falls, one of Japan's top 100, during June for the Hydrangea Festival. See a lush valley covered in blooms i...
Mt. Rakan Crags Tristan Scholze Fly over rock pillars on the edge of the world's largest volcano caldera in Kumamoto, Japan, with winter scenery.
Kamakura's Hase Temple in January Larry Knipfing Kamakura's Hase Temple in January, just on the edge of autumn and the coming spring.